Norman mentors design students and recent productions include Present Laughter (Central School of Speech and Drama); The Servant of Two Masters, Les Femmes Savantes, The Good Woman of Szechuan, among others (RADA).

West End credits include: The Dice House, and Proof, (Arts Theatre); the long running Mr Cinders, (Fortune Theatre); Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave, (The Criterion); Saturday Night at the Palace, (Old Vic); The Importance of Being Earnest, (Whitehall Theatre) and From a Jack to a King, (Ambassador's Theatre).

International credits include: 3 designs for The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Baxter Theatre, Cape Town); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Relatively Speaking and A Bedfull of Foreigners, (British Theatre Playhouse, Singapore); Roxy Music World Tour; Dirty Linen, (New York and Los Angeles); Alexandra Kollentai, (Sydney Festival); The Irish Hebrew Lesson, (Jerusalem Festival); One for One, (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Hobson's Choice, (British Council tour of Pakistan); two seasons of Hearts of Fire, (Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, New York) and as designer for the British American Repertory Theatre Norman designed the original production of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth.

Norman adapted Goodbye, Mr Chips for a UK tour, and most recently adapted Séance on a Wet Afternoon for the stage. His debut novel Beard was published in 2014.

Television credits include: Once Upon a Time in the North, a six part comedy series for the BBC, starring Bernard Hill.​